书目信息 书号:9780553212785 装 帧:平装 作 者:Niccolo Machiavelli 页 数:176 语 言:English 出版社:Bantam Books Inc 开 本: 10.46 x 0.99 x 17.4 cm 出版日期:1 Aug. 1984 以上信息均为网络信息,仅供参考,具体以实物为准
First published in 1913, Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country is a scathing novel of ambition featuring one of the most ruthless heroines in literature. Undine Spragg is as unscrupulous as she is magnetically beautiful. Her rise to the top of New York's high society from the nouveau riche provides a provocative commentary on the upwardly mobile and the aspirations that eventually cause their ruin. One of Wharton's most acclaimed works, The Custom ofthe Country is a stunning indictment of materialism and misplaced values that is as powerful today forits astute observations about greed and power as when it was written nearly a century ago.
Il est une seule personne, en ce monde, dont lapensee,remontant a quelque cinq cents ans avant notre ere,exerceencore une influence sur la societe chinoise actuelle, etuneseule famille dont les membres se sont succedespendant deux millecinq cents ans: ce sont Confucius, lecelebre penseur, educateur etfondateur du confucianisme,et sa descendance connue sous le nom dela "premiere famille sous le ciel", laquelle, pendant 77gdndrations, a toujours vecu dans la "Residence de Confucius" aQufu,dans la province du Shandong. Ces memoires recueillent les souvenirs de Kong Demao,la soeurainee de Kong Decheng, le descendant en ligne directe de la 77egeneration de Confucius. Durant une longue periode allant de sa naissance jusqua soninstallation a Beijing suite a son mariage, l'auteur avecu danscette famille qui arborait un luxe aristocratiquesans pour autantderoger a l'ethique confuceenne fondeesur la simplicite. Temoinprivilegie, elle a connu les hautset les bas de la Residence duSage. Le texte tradui
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From ancient Greece to nineteenth-century America, thiscollection traces the history of our civilization through theseminal works of its most influential thinkers. Perfect for anyoneinterested in understanding the progression of Western thought,this volume includes: Plato: Apology, Crito, and Death of Socrates from Phaedo Aristotle: Poetics St. Anselm: The Ontological Proof of St. Anselm, fromProslogium St. Thomas Aquinas: St. Thomas' Proofs of God's Existence, from TheSumma Theologica René Descartes: Meditations on the First Philosophy David Hume: An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding Immanuel Kant: Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics John Stuart Mill: Utilitarianism William James: The Will to Believe
After a lifetime of winning and losing at the game of politics,Florentine nobleman Machiavelli set down its ageless rules andmoves in this highly readable treatise. Witty, informative, anddevilishly shrewd, it has long been required reading for everyoneinterested in politics and power.
Publisher Comments : The Declaration ofIndependence was the promise of a representative government; theConstitution was the fulfillment of that promise. On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress issued a unanimousdeclaration: the thirteen North American colonies would be thethirteen United States of America, free and independent of GreatBritain. Drafted by Thomas Jefferson, the Declaration set forth theterms of a new form of government with the following words: "Wehold these Truths to be self-evident, that all men are createdequal, that they are endowed with certain unalienable Rights, thatamong these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness." Framed in 1787 and in effect since March 1789, the Constitution ofthe United States of America fulfilled the promise of theDeclaration by establishing a republican form of government withseparate executive, legislative, and judicial branches. The firstten amendments, known as the Bill of Rights, became part of theConstitution on December 15, 1791. Amo
Book De*ion Marco Polo?s account of his journey throughout the East in thethirteenth century was one of the earliest European travelnarratives, and it remains the most important. Themerchant-traveler from Venice, the first to cross the entirecontinent of Asia, provided us with accurate de*ions of lifein China, Tibet, India, and a hundred other lands, and recordedcustoms, natural history, strange sights, historical legends, andmuch more. From the dazzling courts of Kublai Khan to the perilousdeserts of Persia, no book contains a richer magazine of marvelsthan the Travels. This edition, selected and edited by the great scholar ManuelKomroff, also features the classic and stylistically brilliantMarsden translation, revised and corrected, as well as Komroff?sIntroduction to the 1926 edition. Book Dimension length: (cm)19.7 width:(cm)12.8
Learn how to hot-pepper marmalade and make homemade itching powder and whoopee cushions among other time-tested pranks in this charming little book.
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Two essays representing a search for the balance between the rights of the individual and the power of the state discuss such issues as equality, authority, happiness, justice, and virtue. Reprint.